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Sugar. Around sugar revolved a bitter controversy. Western beet sugar producers, representing themselves as infant-industrialists, had demanded higher tariff rates aimed at Cuban cane, and a limitation on the free importation of Philippine sugar. The House bill raised the world raw sugar duty from $2.20 to $3 per 100 Ib. which would make Cuba, which already enjoys a 20% differential, pay a tariff of $2.40 per 100 Ib. instead of the present $1.76. Swayed by the protest of Secretary of State Stimson as a onetime Governor-General of the Philippines, the House committee placed no limitation on free sugar...
...England representatives, fondly eyeing their huge candy industry, cried out in protest against the higher sugar duties. It was recalled that in 1924 the U. S. Tariff Commission advised President Coolidge to reduce the sugar duty to $1.23 as ample protection for domestic producers. With an election approaching, the President refused to act. Cane-growers in Cuba (75% of whom operate on U. S. capital) foresaw disaster for themselves, predicted a 2¢ rise in retail sugar prices, urged a "battle of the American sugar bowl." The House was told by Chairman Hawley of the Ways & Means Committee that...
...used chiefly for making industrial alcohol. The present duty on blackstrap is about ¼¢ per gallon. The new duty would average between 1¼¢ and 2¢ per gallon, depending upon the sugar content. Farm groups forced this increase on the Ways & Means Committee by the argument that a higher levy on this imported article would turn the alcohol manufacturers to domestic corn as a base for their product...
...Manufacturers. Chairman Hawley explained that, when the base rates on raw materials were revised upwards, it was necessary to give a higher "compensatory" rate to manufacturers using the raw material in their production to keep the proper balance of protection. The rate on high-grade raw wool was jacked up from 31¢ per Ib. to 34¢ with corresponding increases on finished woollen articles running through the whole schedule. These increases to manufacturers made the farmer rage, since they tended to continue the existing tariff disparity between Husbandry and Industry...
...distinction between minor sports I agree with you that a uniform minor insignia would be a great improvement, but let the requirements for obtaining it be higher than they are for the present minor sport letter...